"Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress……" — Samuel Prout

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• Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual… — John Dewey
• It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as… — Harry S. Truman
• It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and… — Oscar Wilde
• The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where… — Ramana Maharshi
• How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe! — John Aubrey
• Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul… — Francis Parker Yockey
• I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen… — Michael Koryta
• If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous… — Oliver Lodge
• It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and… — Frederick Seitz
• O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use… — Charles Spurgeon
• Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but… — Jeff Belanger
• Historically, the Old Charges fall into three groups. The first comprises the two earliest versions, the Regius MS of c.1390… — John Hamill

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